Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Poetry

The Rural Muse by John Clare, now 43, who 15 years ago married the daughter of a neighboring farmer and has himself been farming in order to support his wife and seven children.


Juvenile: Fairy Tales (Eventyr) by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, 30, whose novel The Improvisators also appears and enjoys such success that Andersen is encouraged to pursue a career as novelist and dramatist and neglect the fairy tales that will make him famous. Included in his first volume are "The Tinderbox" ("Fyrtojet"), "The Princess on the Pea" ("Princessen paa Aerten"), "Little Claus and Big Claus" ("Lille Claus og store Claus"), and "Little Ida's Flowers" ("Den lille Idas Blomster"), which will be followed in time by "The Ugly Duckling," "The Fir Tree," "The Red Shoes," "The Swineherd," "The Snow Queen" ("Snedronningen"), and "The Emperor's New Clothes" ("Kejserens nye Kloeder").

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